Sunday, February 28

Italeri brings more World of Tanks in 56th scale to your workbench battlefield…

Brand new boxings in wargaming scale with some bonus codes
and other extras are on the table from Italeri this month (ohh and a model inside as well!). Let’s have a look at
what’s new from Italeri’s world of tanks crossover in today’s preview.

The Panther I was produced as a reaction to the tanks
encountered by German forces during Operation Barbarossa. Having considered
Soviet tank designs to be obsolete, German tank crews were stunned when they
came up against concepts like sloped armour on the T-34.

The Panther took Soviet innovations and supersized them.
Entering the battlefield from 1943 and weighing in at around 45 tonnes, this
was a huge machine. It was technologically ambitious, seeking to ally armour
with speed and firepower. It mounted one of the best guns of the war - the
dependable 7,5 cm Kw.K 42 L/70.

The M4 Sherman medium tank was the backbone of the United States
Army during World War II. The M4 is the first and most basic production version
of the Sherman line. As many as 49,234 vehicles were produced, including the
famous "Easy Eight".

The Sherman first saw combat in North Africa in late 1942
against the Panzer III and Panzer IV. They would go on to be used on all fronts
until the War's end. A lack of firepower and narrow tracks, which often caused
it to get stuck on muddy terrain, were its main weaknesses.

The Cromwell was the first tank put into service by the
British that combined a dual-purpose (anti-tank + anti-infantry) gun, the QF
75mm, with high speed and reasonably thick armour. The Cromwell used the same
hull and turret as the earlier Cavalier and Centaur designs, but it came with a
new Rolls Royce Meteor engine that gave it an impressive top speed of 67 Km/h.

Its design formed the basic of the superb Comet tank.
Undoubtedly, it was one of the most successful tanks of the "Cruiser
Tank" philosophy fielded by Britain in the Second World War.

Development of the Tiger began in 1937. Mass production
started in 1942 with 1,347 vehicles being manufactured in total. Its design was
iconic with suspension similar to the Panther and a hull that extended over its
tracks. This could accommodate a wide ringed turret mounting the infamous 8,8
cm Kw.K 36 L/56 gun.

Tigers first saw combat in the fight for Leningrad and soon
featured in the majority of German armoured engagements. It was the first
German heavy tank of WWII and proved to be formidable against Allied and Soviet
units which mostly consisted of Sherman an T-34 tanks.